CPD training courses

Understand key principles underpinning effective assessment including validity, reliability, and fairness. Improve your assessment knowledge and challenge your assumptions. Courses available: On-demand | 3 Feb-6 Apr 2025 | 2 Jun-3 Aug 2025 | 8 Sep-9 Nov 2025

This interactive series of three workshops will help you understand how to design and use multiple-choice questions (MCQs) for a variety of educational purposes, and how to effectively design them for optimal impact. Courses available: 4 Feb-18 Feb 2025 | 23 Sep-7 Oct 2025

Understand the practicalities of producing and delivering assessment as you are guided through the assessment cycle from start to finish. Courses available: On-demand | 10 Feb-13 Apr 2025 | 9 Jun-10 Aug 2025 | 15 Sep-16 Nov 2025

Understand the practicalities of gathering, interpreting, and critically using assessment data as you are guided through the process of collecting and analysing data, and making informed decisions based on that data. Courses available: 17 Feb-20 Apr 2025

Learn methods from psychometrics to ensure your tests are reliable, valid, and fair. Gain the tools and understanding to analyse your assessment data. Courses available: 24 Feb-27 Apr 2025 | 1 Sep-2 Nov 2025

This interactive online one day workshop will help you understand how to design and use multiple-choice questions (MCQs) for a variety of educational purposes, and how to effectively design them for optimal impact in one day.

This interactive workshop will describe the different approaches to mark scheme design and provide practical guidance on how to optimise your mark schemes. Courses available: 4 March 2025 | 14 Oct 2025

An interactive series of workshops introducing item banking theory, practice and delivery, with an opportunity to discuss the relevance of item banking in your own context.

A series of three interactive online workshops that will develop your knowledge of research purposes, methods and good practice that are relevant to the assessment context.

A series of four interactive online workshops, designed to introduce the basic concepts behind item response theory (IRT) and give clear examples of when it is useful.